hoplomachus

From Ancient Greek ὁπλομάχος (hoplomákhos, “heavily armed”), from ὅπλον (hóplon, “weapon”) + μάχομαι (mákhomai, “I fight”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [hɔˈpɫɔ.ma.kʰʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [oˈplɔː.ma.kus]

hoplomachus m (genitive hoplomachī); second declension

1. a heavily armed gladiator.

Second-declension noun.

• hoplītēs

• “hoplomachus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hoplomachus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.